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Title: Continuation of Raven Stories: Raven's Theft of Daylight
Identifier(s): audio:6874; APSdigrec_0627; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 05
Description: Completion of the story of of Raven in the box, interrupted by end of previous tape. Also includes the story of Raven in the Whale, followed without a break by Raven's Theft of Daylight, introduced by name for Dry Bay, gunaxo (i.e. among Athabaskans). The two songs given during the telling are 'Daylight' and 'I'll break it on you.'; Resumption of story broken off on APSdigrec_0617.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Raven (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit mythology; Tlingit Indians--Folklore
Date: 1952-09-13

Title: CAnkuqedi Coming-in Song
Identifier(s): audio:6951; APSdigrec_1025; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 09
Description: A song used by Frank Italio's sibling when entering a house to which they had been invited as guests to a potlatch. Song is described as "lacking words" but also being in "Dry Bay Athabaskan"--most likely Southern Tutchone.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: cAnkuqedi Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:6952; APSdigrec_1026; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 10
Description: Identified by collector as possibly coming from Athabascan Indians at Dry Bay.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit dance; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Similar Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:6935; APSdigrec_1027; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 11
Description: Identified by collector as possibly coming from Athabascan Indians at Dry Bay.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit dance; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: cAnkuqedi Sitting Down Song
Identifier(s): audio:6970; APSdigrec_1028; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 12
Description: Collector identifies song as "apparently one used by guests at a potlatch when they are seated."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Peace Song for Frank Italio
Identifier(s): audio:6943; APSdigrec_1024; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 08
Description: "This is the song to which he danced when serving as a peace officer."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Sitka Peace Officer's Song in 3 parts; to Xas'hItan-yAtx'i and t'inedi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6962; APSdigrec_1030; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 14
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: cAnkuqedi Sitting Down Song
Identifier(s): audio:6938; APSdigrec_1029; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 13
Description: A song acquired by Dry Bay people, at marriage of a women from nuqwa on headwaters of Alsek.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Shaman's Song
Identifier(s): audio:6925; APSdigrec_1014; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 14
Description: "This is a spirit song belonging to the shaman, gutcda, and refers to Xat-qwani, Fish-People Spirits."; This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Religion; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Shaman's Song
Identifier(s): audio:6929; APSdigrec_1015; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 15
Description: "This song is also one belonging to gutcda and refers to the Xat-qwani. Not sure that it is not another stanza of [previous] song."; This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Religion; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Story and songs of cklayaqw'
Identifier(s): audio:6855; APSdigrec_0624; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 02
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Folklore; Quests (Expeditions)
Date: 1952-09-13

Title: Raven Cycle
Identifier(s): audio:6865; APSdigrec_0617; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 03
Description: "The first episode is apparently that of the birth of Raven, for the key words: dIs (moon, Raven's jealous uncle) at [:35] is heard; kit (Killerwhale, the spirit that told Raven's mother how to conceive) at [3:07]; kun (flicker, the young wife of whom Raven's uncle was jealous) at [11:50]. There is recorded laughter when Frank gestured to show how Raven plucked flicker feathers from the armpits of his uncle's wife - at [12:19]. The second episode evidently is that of how Raven worsted the Owner of the Tides. The key words are: gic (kelp, down which Raven climbed to get sea urchins) at [13:54]; Frank makes a slurp, to indicate Raven's eating the sea urchins at [14:32]; Frank belches at [16:20]; "de awa yel" in falsetto ("That's enough, Raven") at [17:11]; hutc (end)- at [17:34]. The third episode is evidently that in which Raven's "stooge" throws him down the mountain in a box. The key words are: xacaguk' or xacak'ok'w (Raven's wooden ? servant). Minnie interrupts to ask "How does he remember that?" at [17:55]. Tape runs out."; Story resumed on APSdigrec_0627. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Raven (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit mythology; Tlingit Indians--Folklore
Date: 1952-08-29

Title: Love song to Teqweydi's and Kagwantan's Children
Identifier(s): audio:6856; APSdigrec_0604; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 06
Description: "This song was composed by Frank Italio. It is sung both by him and by Minnie Johnson. While singing and practicing, Frank became very jovial and held Minnie's hand in both of this. According to the unrecorded explanation, the song was originally composed in honor of Frank Italio's father, Kagwantan-yAdi, i.e. son of the Kagwantan, but the first verse was changed to make it a love song for Teqwedi's children, of whom Minnie herself is one."; Frank Italio also identified as "CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.')"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Children's songs
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: Song for the Thunderbird Screen
Identifier(s): audio:6863; APSdigrec_0602; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 04
Description: "Minnie Johnson explains [that this song] was composed in Tlingit by go.snA', and sung by Frank Italio, q'At'axítci."; Frank Italio also identified as "CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.')"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska; Thunderbird (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit mythology
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: Raven Story and Songs
Identifier(s): audio:6920; APSdigrec_1016; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 16
Description: Story of approximately 10 minutes in Tlingit about Raven, followed by two songs about Raven stealing Box of Daylight.; Tape runs out before completion of second song.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Folklore; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Raven (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit mythology
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Story and Song about the Frog Screen
Identifier(s): audio:6903; APSdigrec_1012; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 12
Description: Story and song of how the tl'uknaxAdi found the Frog. Song composed by Dry Bay Chief George, probably in 1910.; For translation, see first item under Related Recording. Song was later re-recorded. For later recording, see second item under Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Folklore; Frogs--Folklore
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Song in Tlingit about the Drowning in the Aiyan River
Identifier(s): audio:6847; APSdigrec_0616; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 02
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Drowning
Date: 1952-08-29

Title: Continuation of Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:6849; APSdigrec_0606; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 08
Description: Frank Italio also identified as CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.'
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Children's songs
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: The Song of the Beaver of the Kalix Kagwantan
Identifier(s): audio:6846; APSdigrec_0623; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 01
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Beavers--Folklore; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1952-09-13

Title: Explanation of Thunderbird Origin Story; Mourning song for go.snA'
Identifier(s): audio:6850; APSdigrec_0600; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 02
Description: "Frank explains Thunderbird Origin Story in Tlingit. At [approx. 2:45] Minnie Johnson urges Frank Italio to sing. Mourning soung for go.snA' with rapid beat of cane."; Correction made by collector on later recording that original identification of the language of the song--referred to as "yatqwan XEnaX (old people's language)"--was likely misidentified as Eyak and is instead likely to be "in some dialect of Athabaskan." Frank Italio also identified as "CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.')"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Thunderbird (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Tlingit mythology; Alsek River
Date: 1952-07-30